Kenneth Kesner

Kairo

we were there   
once   
we were worlded
 
gnomon’s glazed past   
some glyphic momentum
 
questless as … that 
 
time’s outside himself   
but just then, though
 
so   are you ready to bury a lover?   
a brother … yet another?
 
so’s sound herself   gathered
 
no alban imitate of spirit   
to be scored in hieric negative
 
how … how could i hear it mattered   
where moments   
from one to other?

© 2007 Kenneth Kesner

Elegies Instead

who's the angel over there
who's to be the death of me
who bleeds   forgetting tears
no memory no jealousy 
of 
shard destiny
 
portions pure
as 
 
light sounds to be seen
lightning's to have been
meaning's there never more
glancing where loomings tore
where somewhere angels 
have  to  go
 
after exiles 

© 2007 Kenneth Kesner

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